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Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at UCL, Nuffield College and Stockholm Uni. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
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Trying to convince reviewers like

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Sociologists shitting on each other

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in special issues: "you get breadcrumbs, but still we proceed"

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PSA: Don’t trust anyone who tells you that you can identify age or period or cohort effects simply by applying the right statistical model to the right type of data. This is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the age-period-cohort problem!>

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Trying to convince reviewers like

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AI is incredibly useful for our Wrong Answers Only Club.

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If AI kills labor market demand for confident bullshitters, I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

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Reviewer: “This paper makes an important contribution” Also reviewer: “Here are 37 reasons it shouldn’t exist”

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There’s always that one citation you relegate to footnote 12 because anything else would collapse the illusion of novelty

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know this: there are people I respect & do not cite. there are people I cite &

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finally transitioned from word to overleaf

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I wish we could see the author submitted file name like final_final_REALLYfinal_plsuse.pdf

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I'll take AI if it can generate file names for article pfds that aren't 1-s2.0-S0052062X51003165-main

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That's my problem as an academic: too much emotional growth

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Writing a paper is repeatedly discovering there was a better version of the paper you thought you were writing

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We must remain silly in these trying times.

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My body at 3PM:

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Can confirm. Embrace chaos

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I was trying to remember where in the house we keep q-tips and kept remembering all the places they were stored in houses I've lived in the past. Kind of cool how "my house" is a tesseract that can be navigated in space or time. Wish I had those q-tips now tho

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Satiric Karl Arnold parodied the “typical Nazi sympathizer as a foggy-brained beer-swizzling man of the past with his eyes blinded by swastikas.” @nsdoku.bsky.social

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1995: TV is killing bowling alleys 2025: Social media is killing TV

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🚨 The Contemporary European History Prize 2025 is now open for submissions! PhD students/ECRs working on post-1914 European history are eligible. Entries are max 8,000 words. Winner receives publication and £400 of CUP books! Deadline 12 Sept 2025. More details ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Another great reason to submit manuscripts to @europeansocreview.bsky.social 🙃

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You read it first in @europeansocreview.bsky.social

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Someone said clarity is kindness so now I’m revising my draft to be unintelligible and emotionally safe

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I, also, am the product of an exotic ten thousand year old culture that dislikes being airstruck for inscrutable cultural reasons

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"Awaiting Editor Decision"

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IE will be hosting the next edition of the MESS conference. MESS is an amazing initiative bring together empirical social scientists working in Madrid. The first edition happened last year and it was a great event in all ways. Applications are open now—consider applying!

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At some point interdisciplinary stops meaning open-minded and starts meaning “I’ve burned all bridges and now live between fields”

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How to be a writer, no. 1256899 1. Write 2. Think about writing 3. Worry about writing 4. Write some more 5. Be the envy of social media with your fictional playboy lifestyle 6. Tea

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The slow-burn piece: conceived in rage, written in relief, published in irrelevance

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Place names on the continent so funny like Liège Luik Lüttich let’s all pretend the other guy lost the war

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This is shocking behaviour by Wiley; the stated justification does not stand up. I will not be doing any peer review for Wiley journals in future.

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